Everything Hertz: 122: Reoptimizing scientific publishing for the internet age (with Michael Eisen)

"The internet should have transformed science publishing, but it didn't. We chat with Michael Eisen (Editor-in-Chief of eLife) about reoptimizing scientific publishing and peer review for the internet age.

Here what we cover and some links:

• How Michael co-founded PLOS
• The book Dan mentioned on the history of the scientific journal
• Why did eLife launch? What did it offer that other journals didn't?
• Nature's recently proposed $11k article processing fee proposal
• eLife's new "author-driven publishing" approach, in which all submitted papers have to be posted as preprints
• Part two of our conversation will be released on January 4, 2021 ..."